It's Classics Club Spin time again! Each Clubber has a personal list of 50-100 classic books that we have chosen to be our challenge list. For the Spin we pick 20 of those titles and put them into a numbered list. On November 27th the Club moderators will pick a number from 1 to 20 and we have to read that book on our list by the end of January and report back to the Club. Usually we get one month to read the book, but for this Spin we have two months because it's a Chunkster version and the books should be nice big ones.
So here's my list! I want to read them all, so I'm not sure if I am hoping for any particular number to come up. I should probably hope for a long, cold winter in which to stay home and read!
1. Can You Forgive Her?
Anthony Trollope
848 pages
2. The Claverings
Anthony Trollope
560 pages
3. A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
Anthony Powell
732 page
4. Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
784 pages
5. David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
768 pages
6. The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio, Wayne A. Rebhorn (Translator)
1024 pages
7. Hard Times
Charles Dickens
352 pages
8. Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
544 pages
9. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
Elizabeth Gaskell
496 pages
10. The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
560 pages
11. Ruth
Elizabeth Gaskell
512 pages
12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
496 pages
13. Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
736 pages
14. Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
720 pages
15. Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
480 pages
16. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
O.E. Rolvaag
480 pages
17. Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
480 pages
18. Howards End
E. M. Forster
499 pages
19. The Vicar of Bullhampton
Anthony Trollope
512 pages
20. The Ambassadors
Henry James
528 pages
UPDATE: The spin is #1, so I'm reading Anthony Trollope's "Can You Forgive Her?" All 848 pages of it by January 31, 2019.
your number 10 is awesome. I started listening to it during a trip, but it was not long enough, lol. So I'm planning to restart listening to it soon - so that's why I didn't had it to my list. I found one on Hoopla with a cast of narrators, should be helpful, because there are a lot of people. Here is my list: https://wordsandpeace.com/2018/11/20/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-19/
ReplyDeleteThanks! I've heard lots of good things about Wilke Collins' books. Maybe I should hope for #10 on the spin.
DeleteWe share the Anthony Powell if no. 3 is spun this time around :-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck
That Powell book does look very interesting. I haven't read any of his work yet.
DeleteGracious alive! These are a lot of big books!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
LOL! I guess I took the Chunkster bit literally. And I do like a meaty, long-lasting read where I can get very involved in the story.
DeleteA varied list. Myself I have given up on Dickens and Elliot! The Moonstone and Vanity Fair are great novels. Hardy is always good.
ReplyDeleteI just went through my idex of books I own and picked all the biggest ones. Chunkster here I come! LOL! Moonstone would be a nice spin pick.
DeleteNice choices. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm looking forward to some nice long days of reading with Spin #19.
DeleteI see so many good books on your list.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Deronda is on my list too but I'm reading it even if it doesn't match the spin number because I'll be buddy reading it starting in December.
David Copperfield is probably my favorite Dickens book to date but Hard Times was a good one too.
Mary Barton is my favorite Gaskell, I read it earlier this year! I finished Wives and Daughters last month and it's really good, the characters are so funny! But Molly is a lovely and kind girl.
I haven't read any Gaskell yet, so I was hoping for that one. After I finish my Trollope spin, I'll read that one. Goodluck with your spin reading!
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